Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
This is a common dilemma for politicians to decide whenever the annual budget is discussed. Should the government solve the urgent problems, like soaring unemployment rate, or should more resources be allocated into future issues, like the growth of an aging population? My position is that while dealing with the immediate problems, the government also establishes a foundation that can be used to tackle the future issues. Therefore, I generally agree with the prompt that immediate problems should get the first priority compared to the anticipated problems of the future.
To begin with, the most challenging issue we are facing now is the outbreak of the pandemic, and Taiwan has become few of the countries that has better control over the pandemic and effectively manage the damage. One of the many reasons contributing to Taiwan’s success is the well-established public health insurance system that has already existed for more than thirty years. Back then, the rationale to build the public insurance system was not to be used for potential spread of the pandemic, but instead, it was built for the reason to provide an insurance system that is affordable for all the citizens when the proper health care was expensive to reach. This example best illustrates my opinion that while dealing with an immediate problem thirty years ago, a foundation that is critical to monitor the spread of the pandemic was also formed. In other words, the effort put for immediate social issues will also pay off for future problems.
Additionally, the policy imposed for immediate problems can receive immediate feedback for a better solution to be formed. Again, take the example of the pandemic. Another reason that Taiwan is able to control the pandemic well is due to the past experience of dealing with SARS around ten years ago. At that moment, some policies were not suitably conducted and led to disastrous outcomes, so the government has quickly improved and established new laws and regulations that are useful for the pandemic this time. My point is that the feedback from immediate problems is more direct than the future problems, which can help to form a more effective policy that both serves well for the present and future problems. That’s why I do believe that putting first priority for the present problems will gain more favorable outcomes compared to the effort of dealing with future problems when no direct feedback is shown.
Admittedly, some problems do conflict with each other, for example, paying more subsidies to the present citizens due to the pandemic loss, will actually create more debts for future citizens. Under this kind of scenario, we may need further evaluation of the potential consequences that we haven’t foreseen. Nonetheless, at the principal level, it is better to focus on the present problems.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 243, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experience'.
Suggestion: experience
...control the pandemic well is due to the past experience of dealing with SARS around ten years a...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 394, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...etter to focus on the present problems.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, may, nonetheless, so, then, therefore, well, while, for example, kind of, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2389.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 464.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14870689655 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67752483304 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495689655172 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 745.2 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.1205407261 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.722222222 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7777777778 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27777777778 5.21951772744 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172607397307 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0587915226513 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596442845548 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117148732758 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0653614302771 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 243, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experience'.
Suggestion: experience
...control the pandemic well is due to the past experience of dealing with SARS around ten years a...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 394, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...etter to focus on the present problems.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, may, nonetheless, so, then, therefore, well, while, for example, kind of, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2389.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 464.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14870689655 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67752483304 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495689655172 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 745.2 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.1205407261 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.722222222 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7777777778 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27777777778 5.21951772744 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172607397307 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0587915226513 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596442845548 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117148732758 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0653614302771 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.